I've moved to Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Some notes from the first week at work at the new job:

• Change audio output in Cisco Jabber by clicking on the gear at the upper right picking "Options..." and then "Audio" under the "Options" dialog which appears. Change the "Speaker:" setting and remember to press the "Apply" button once you do. When making a phone call from Cisco Jabber, be sure to add the leading +1 before the ten digit telephone number or else the call "cannot be completed as dialed" and you don't want to have hyphens in the phone number either. Just have eleven numbers with a leading plus sign.
• Jabra is an electronics company that does headsets. Their take on tech reduces both fatigue and audio spikes.
• IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler is yet another job scheduling tool.
• Wonderbox Technologies has some canned software for healthcare services, recordkeeping for medical records, etc.
• Flowdock for a tool to augment CA Technologies Rally which both has a mobile app (get updates whenever a ticket changes) that allows you to put stuff into Rally and also has capabilities to allow you to talk to your Rally teammates.
• Per this, RAISERROR in T-SQL is not really an exception but a message and it will not return anything until the whole of the stored procedure it is in wraps up. Chase RAISERROR implementations with WITH NOWAIT to make them spit out a message the moment the line of code is run. Changing subject somewhat slightly, SET LOCK_TIMEOUT 3600000 in T-SQL denotes the number of milliseconds that may pass before a locking error is thrown. In this case one hour may pass.
• SiteMinder is CA Technologies' way of doing "single sign on" while IdentityMinder is their way of managing roles. TransactionMinder is for chit chat with web services and is also of CA Technologies.
• Targus sells docks for laptops and laptop bags and other stuff.
• SAP's Fieldglass is a time entry tool.
• DbVisualizer isn't just for PostgreSQL. One may browse MSSQL databases with it.

 
 

Some other stray thoughts while in transition since blogging last:

• I haven't namedropped Phil Haack of GitHub on my blog yet. I saw him speak back when he was with Microsoft before he went to GitHub and before later on when GitHub became owned by Microsoft. He spoke at the Austin .NET User Group back when I was at Headspring and me and a bunch of other Headspring guys went and saw him speak and he tried to demo an app he threw together on the plane ride in and it kept breaking.
• I can remember being at Johnson/McKibben Architects, Inc. and listening to Wajahat Siddique, Neil Griffin, Joe Donaldson, and Johnathon Wright's brother David Wright talk about MTEXT which was a way to do text in AutoCAD which got much debate. Neil didn't like it and he said whenever he ran into it he exploded it to manhandle it into something else as it was hard to change. Neil also suggested that BradCAD was an AutoCAD alternative like MicroStation.
• As of the 1st of August, plans for 3D printing your own guns which you can just slip through metal detectors are no longer illegal to download in America due to the Trump administration which sees the dissemination of this information as free speech. I remember when Brittan declassified how to make nuclear weapons in 2002 and that also and that seemed similarly unbelievable. Wait! This is no longer true. The release of the gun plans have been blocked by a judge.
• In the Paint program which comes with Windows 7, if you are holding down the left-mouse button and dragging out an effect, such as drawing with the pencil, right-clicking before releasing the left button will undo everything you have done while releasing the left button alone applies the effect.
• thehub.amazon.com is some sort of Amazon-based tool to let you know that a package is waiting for you at a mailbox. I'm sure it ties into Amazon nicely, but it's not just that. It is also for other types of deliveries I believe.
• When you make a change in Google Chrome's Settings, you likely don't need to explicitly press a Save or Submit button to make the change take effect. You may just make the change and then close out of Settings. This isn't the Windowsland way of doing things. This approach to UX was first associated with the Macintosh, but it has spread out to other things.
• Back in the day, multimedia was sometimes referred to as: "New Media"
• Cracken is some tool from IBM that cracks passwords on accounts. Password1 is still the most popular password!
• Spring Boot is some sort of UI framework for the Spring Framework and Java not unlike Spring MVC but also not the same either.
• I work with vision/optometrist medical records and I heard one of the others in the office namedrop Essilor which of course owns FramesDirect. I thought of how when I worked at FramesDirect they had some curious try-on feature in which you could upload an image of your face and kinda lay different frames that you might buy over the image to see what they looked like on you.
• I just got the internet connection turned on by Comcast and the modem is capable of turning on the mocha feature for cable which I will never use as I do not own a TV. If you have an X1 cable box and you try to use the guide, any modem without a mocha filter will be found when searching for the guide (in your apartment complex) and the ping in will cause a hint of lag. The mocha filter looks like this: